A controversial new law allows chaplains to replace school counselors. School districts—and campus ministries—across the state are largely unfazed.
Billionaires here are funding right-wing politicians to knock down barriers between church and state. But a small countermovement is now rising to meet them.
Texas’s attorney general is suing to revoke the license of a Catholic migrant aid center in El Paso. Leaders of such aid groups say they’re simply practicing their faith.
Baylor University is one of many religious institutions that have received religious exemptions to federal law prohibiting sex-based discrimination.
At “Take Our Border Back” rallies across Texas, the convoy’s Christian nationalist rhetoric was on wide display. But not all soldiers are equally devout.
Fort Worth cleric Michael Olson is no stranger to scandal. But when he threatened to remove a nun from her home, he might have finally met his match.
Deacon Jeff Willard blesses seafarers with everything from prayers to rides around Galveston Island to cherry cigarillos.
After Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel, a crowd gathered in the Alamo City for an evangelical event that quickly turned into a call to arms.
He’s one of the first faith-based coordinators for Texas inmates facing the death penalty. He’s scheduled to be executed this week.
A pastor in Austin asked the artificial intelligence chatbot to write an entire Sunday service. It bombed.
Throughout the impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton, his wife, a state senator, shared her internal struggle one Bible verse at a time.
As United Methodist congregations across the U.S. leave over LGBTQ inclusion and the interpretation of Scripture, one East Texas community is rent asunder.
Declared a fake by many experts, the James Ossuary is coming to Texas for its first American exhibit.
No other school in the state—not UT, not A&M, not Texas Tech—has made the last nine NCAA tournaments in a row.
Matthew Kacsmaryk cut his teeth at First Liberty Institute, a “religious liberty” law firm with Texas roots—and a growing national reach.
David Morring of Dallas’s Lerma is one of the creative minds behind the “He Gets Us” campaign, which targets “spiritually open skeptics.”
Robert Jeffress resuscitated a once powerful church—and courted controversy too.
Progressive religious leaders are mulling their options to help women who seek abortions—and some are willing to risk lawsuits and jail time.
By declaring that “evil will always walk among us” or calling for Texans to “unify in faith,” politicians communicate specific ideas to the electorate.
Remington Johnson has become a touchstone for the families of transgender children.
William Martin’s journey from Rice professor to Billy Graham expert began with a simple assignment, one that would alter his life for decades to come.
Almost 25 percent of severe injuries at mills in the state since 2017 have occurred at a single facility, owned by members of the Church of Wells.
The Houston Cougars quarterback broke NCAA records in the early nineties. Now he teaches the Old Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary.
A conversation with the author of the moving and assured ‘God Spare the Girls.’
The Houston-born painter explores questions of faith alongside the myths and legends of Texas history.
We asked leaders from across the state and the religious spectrum to share their best words of wisdom.
The visual arts institution intends to realize the artist’s original intentions for the space with its upgrades.
Mosques are exempt from Governor Greg Abbott's "stay at home" order, but many have opted to stay closed for the Muslim holy month.
Ahead of Super Tuesday, the Sanders campaign has reached out to Muslim voters unlike any campaign before.
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At a meeting of Texas social conservatives, all anyone wanted to talk about (and eat) was Chick-fil-A
No matter how incendiary his latest tweet or policy might seem, Donald Trump can count on evangelical preacher and Fox News fixture Robert Jeffress to defend him. What’s behind the Dallas pastor’s unconditional embrace?
Sabika Sheikh, a Muslim exchange student from Pakistan with dreams of changing the world, struck up an unlikely friendship with an evangelical Christian girl. The two became inseparable—until the day a fellow student opened fire.
With its mixture of American and Mexican heritage, South Texas does Holy Week like nowhere else.
The 23-page report outlines details of 56 priests dating back to 1940.
The McAllen nun fights fiercely for the dignity of immigrants.
The wildly popular Houston author and speaker is staring down the ”sin” and ”ungodliness” in her own denomination.
I've struggled to keep my grandma and aunt with me since their deaths. But this year, I decided to honor their memories—and show them my life as an adult—by making my first día de los muertos altar.
A day before Jeff Sessions and Sarah Huckabee Sanders used the Bible to justify separating immigrant families, a resolution from the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas had already contradicted them.
"The procedures to protect women have to be institutionalized and standardized. If your model for authority and leadership is that whatever the pastor in charge says goes, then you don’t have accountability."
A decade after the largest custody battle in U.S. history, some of those involved speak about their memories.
Branch Davidians Clive Doyle and Sheila Martin lost almost everything in the Waco fire, but not their faith.
A quarter century after 82 Branch Davidians and 4 federal officers died outside Waco, retired FBI agent Byron Sage still can't stop thinking—and arguing—about what happened.
The founder of Cristo Rey Jesuit College Prep in Houston's last gift to his students—and to all of us—was his wisdom.
After the Sutherland Springs shooting, church leaders in Texas grapple with safety and encouragement.
Details continue to emerge about the shooting in Sutherland Springs. Here's what we know so far.
In 1980, two nerds in Dallas started their own religion. Forty years later, SubGenius founder Ivan Stang and filmmaker Sandy K. Boone reveal the true story of the long con.
San Angelo makes its case for María de Jesús de Ágreda to the Vatican.
Moving electricity through West Texas comes at a steep price.
